QueenZone discussion #1499827

little foetus wrote: "i'm sorry, *something i don't understand*, i saw them when you, it bumps me out, *something i don't understand* first american tour"

bootLuca wrote: Thank you very much! Why there are great recording from US "a day at the races"and US jazz tour and not from US "news of the world" tour? ;-)

Chinwonder2 wrote: Here’s what I hear before STL: I’m sorry, I just can’t get into it. I saw them on A Night At The opera their first American tour.

Gregsynth wrote: Brighton Rock (and its instrumental inferno) is one of the best. What an awesome musical performance.

*goodco* wrote: Saturday, November 11th, 1978, on a sunny and relatively warm late autumn day, we travelled to see the band in Kalamazoo (still my favorite concert of all time). Let me just say that this Providence show is absolute ‘gold’ to me. I got ahold of the Montreal concert two decades ago. The closest performance in time to Kzoo. I’ve since listened to other NA shows in the past decade (minus hand claps;-))……but this is the most special to me. Comments to previous posters "...and it was nothing like this." Let me take you back in time for that evening and following weekend. The sound, songs, and the band had a ‘harder edge’, which we enjoyed. We also thought that Freddie’s look was spoofing the punk movement. (Hell, what did we know then?) A couple of other things to keep in mind. I saw them on the ADATR tour (schedule conflict for NOTW). This night, four rows up from ‘center ice’ on Brian’s side, it took us a bit by surprise when the lights dimmed, we heard the thunder, a huge lighting rig rises from barely above the drum kit, a tune that 90% in attendance were not familiar with, and then you realize it is Queen on stage (no warm up band, unlike ALL the concerts I’d previously attended). I’m thinking, ‘OK….I guess they’ve certainly changed that song….., so much for the studio version.” And then two of the next three songs are unknowns, as the LP didn’t hit these shores until the 14th. The medley was different, and confusing (then). GDML was a visual treat. ‘Now I’m Here’ still kicked axe, and ‘Spread Your Wings’ was a pleasant surprise. We had never seen the drop down stage, heard the acoustic set, the versions, or one of those songs (damn, was that sing along fun though). ‘Brighton Rock’ was in its growing stages. FBG was great, but that extra instrumental, not on the 45 versions we’d heard the previous two weeks, was different. KYA was smokin’. I get to see BoRhap, for the second time in its ‘entirety’. My buddy leans over screaming ‘’ (in a good way). To follow, I’m thinking ‘Liar’?, ‘In the Lap of the Gods’? Instead, it’s the song that opened my last Queen concert (complete with unexpected flash bombs). Encore time: gotta be ‘Stone Cold Crazy’. Nope. Second encore: a rock n roll medley? A cover? ‘Liar’? ‘Lap of the Gods’? Well, they gotta play WATC, right? Which they did......eventually;-) And amongst all the fog and crashing final chords, as the pizza oven tilts backwards, the lights shining outwards, a great frickin concert is soon to end. An unexpected treat (for most) follows, as the pizza oven menacingly lowers while the tape of GSTQ provides one last visual treat for an already fantastic evening. The following Friday, I was finally able to purchase the LP. As we’re listening at a friend’s house with an absolutely killer stereo, the questions and commentary went along the lines of: ‘Didn’t play that song, oh, there’s that instrumental in FBG, didn’t play this,…hey, wasn’t that the one they played after WWRY fast? ah, here’s that sing along song…..Did they play this one?’ etc Sorry for rambling. I still haven't said 'thank you'. I’ve listened to this concert twice in the past week. Thanks to the taper. Thanks for sharing. Thanks to all who had a hand in making the Providence show available. I felt like I was at Wings Stadium again on a most special night.